diremption

Definitions

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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A tearing apart; violent separation.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A forcible separation; a tearing asunder.

n. In botany, same as chorisis.

n. In veg. teratol., the abnormal displacement of leaves. See displacement, 6.

Etymologies

From Latin diremptio ("a separation") (Wiktionary)

Examples

The creation was the self-diremption of the infinite into finite expression, the fall was the self-discovery of this finitude, the incarnation was the awakening of the finite to its essential infinity; and here, a sufficient number of pages having been engrossed, the matter generally hastened to a conclusion; for the redemption with its means of application, once the central point in Christianity, was less pliable to the new pantheistic interpretation.

The former limit is reached in anguish, madness, or the agony of death, when the accidental flux of things in contradiction has reached its maximum or vanishing point, so that the contradiction and the flux themselves disappear by diremption.

"Nor," he continues, "has he clearly marked off the functions of his two efficient forces, nay, he has so confounded them that at times it is Discord that through separation leads to new unions, and Love that through union causes diremption of that which was before."

Further, it is a key passage for understanding the diremption - meaning the tearing apart, or violent separation from all former historical notions of the human condition so characteristic of modern existence - at the foundation of Hegel's enterprise:

What's more, this attempt to force a diremption between the Word proclaimed and the Word written bespeaks a dire falsification of speech and writing as manifestations of the one language of a particular and peculiar animal.